-Need better pedagogy i.e., a practice set to create a not-for-profit so in class can review disparate answers.

-Need more authentic assignments i.e., Management accounting business memo. Students need to be able to filter for relevant info, formulate key questions, present alternative solutions, and support recommendations.

-Need to change the perceptions of high school guidance counselors, i.e., Career preference tests are based on 1950s DOL profiles which are no longer relevant about what accountants do!

-Need to recognize what accounting is being outsourced to the third world and what our value proposition is.

-What should be done about high school students that are not top notch that want to do accounting?

-Current accounting students are not prepared to do accounting in practice—need more internship experience!

-Accounting grads should be work ready!

-Look at accounting:business curriculum….should it be 50:50?

-Students need step by step experience in how to conduct an audit so can learn to think beyond checking off the step on the audit checklist.

-What can be done about the international regulatory barriers?

-What can be done about the barriers to obtaining international experience?

-What responsibilities does the accounting profession have for regulation? Are we thought leaders in new regulations and laws?

-K-12 GenEd should include business and accounting, why doesn’t it? What can be done?

-PhD shortage-are there enough faculty to teach? Are enrollments rising? Is ADS working? What else can be done?

-Current faculty should promote the academy as a profession choice.

-Current Accreditation [credentialing] of faculty is NOT what the profession needs

-Curriculum should allow for different professional pathways: public, private, academic….one size or emphasis does not fit all!

-Can we afford to provide different pathways?

-How to teach emerging topics, i.e., reconciling book to tax income becoming more difficult due to fair value accounting.

-There should be one accounting license for US—broad credential. Granted at national level not state level.